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This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Philip Roth's body of work.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors; Introduction Maggie McKinley; Part I. Life and Literary Contexts: 1. Life Matthew Shipe; 2. Literary Influences Rachael McLennan; 3. Literary Conversations Dan A. O'Brien; 4. Roth's Comic Seriousness Paule Lévy; 5. Writing about Writing James D. Bloom; Part II. Critical Contexts: 6. The Early Years Ira Nadel; 7. Portnoy and its Aftermath Pia Masiero; 8. The Zuckerman Books David Hadar; 9. The Kepesh Books Mike Witcombe; 10. The 'Philip Roth' books Gurumurthy Neelakantan; 11. The Late Novellas Victoria Aarons; Part III. Geographical Contexts: 12. Newark Jessica Lang; 13. The Berkshires Daniel Anderson; 14. Prague Claudia Franziska Brühwiler; 15. Israel Leona Toker; Part IV. Theoretical Contexts: 16. Psychoanalysis Maren Scheurer; 17. Postmodernism Michael Kalisch; 18. Trauma Theory Aimee Pozorski; 19. Narrative Medicine Miriam Jaffe; Part V. Jewish American Identity: 20. Roth as 'Jewish American Writer' Jennifer Glaser; 21. The Holocaust in Roth's Work Hilene Flanzbaum; 22. Judaism and Secularism Jacques Berlinerblau; 23. Antisemitism Gustavo Sánchez Canales; 24. The Black-Jewish Matrix Brett Ashley Kaplan and Naomi Taub; Part VI. Gender & Sexuality: 25. Roth and Women Debra Shostak; 26. Masculinity Maggie McKinley; 27. Sexuality David Brauner; Part VII. Political Contexts: 28. Political Satire David Gooblar; 29. Class Politics Andy Connolly; 30. American Individualism Brittany Hirth; 31. The War on Terror Margaret Scanlan; Part VIII. Roth's Legacy: 32. Roth in Adaptation Gerard O'Donoghue; 33. Roth in Translation Velichka Ivanova; 34. Philip Roth on Philip Roth James Schiff; 35. Roth in Retirement Timothy Parrish; Primary Bibliography; Selected Secondary Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Maggie McKinley is an Associate Professor of English at Harper College. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction (2015) and Understanding Norman Mailer (2017), has published numerous articles on Philip Roth, and currently serves as the program director of the Philip Roth Society.
Summary
This volume is for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic scholars studying and teaching the work of Philip Roth. The short, focused chapters offer students clear and concise overviews of contexts that shape Roth's work, without assuming in-depth knowledge. The chapters also offer scholars jumping off points for further research.
